The marriage of Cheryl Hines, the actress known for her role in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is reportedly on the rocks.
This comes in the wake of Kennedy's scandalous sexting relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, a journalist significantly younger than him. According to the Daily Mail, close friends of Hines anticipate that she will soon file for divorce.
A confidante of Hines, in an exclusive interview, revealed that the 59-year-old television star was taken aback by the scandal. She had been under the impression that her husband's philandering days were behind him. "Cheryl found ten years of marriage with Bobby to be 'spicier and a lot of laughs'," the source, a longtime friend, shared. "She adored being a member of America's royal family, and having the famous Kennedy name attached to hers, but now she's thoroughly embarrassed and furious about his adulterous actions and they believe she wants out."
The source further added that Hines was well aware of Kennedy's history of womanizing. She had become involved with him publicly while he was still married to his second wife. However, she was under the belief that Kennedy, now in his seventies and with political aspirations, had finally tamed his sexual demons. She thought they had settled into a peaceful domestic life in southern California. "But she now feels totally blindsided and humiliated. His affair with that woman, Olivia Nuzzi, has wreaked havoc on their marriage," the insider revealed.
The scandal came to light last month when Nuzzi, 31, a star political correspondent for New York magazine, admitted to having a sexting relationship with Kennedy, 70, while covering his campaign. Kennedy, who had suspended his independent bid for president and endorsed Donald Trump in August, claimed that he had only met Nuzzi once when she interviewed him for the magazine. However, friends disclosed to Page Six that Nuzzi and Kennedy had engaged in steamy FaceTime sessions, and Nuzzi was impressed by Kennedy's 'sexual stamina'. Following the scandal, Nuzzi resigned from her job.
The rumors of a potential divorce were fueled when Hines was spotted without her large diamond ring at a Gucci-hosted afterparty during Milan Fashion Week on September 20. She was only wearing her wedding band, having ditched the larger ring she had been seen wearing at the Emmy Awards just a few days earlier. She was later seen at a Paris Fashion Week event, deliberately showing off her wedding band to photographers.
Meanwhile, a close ally of Kennedy expressed shock at the revelation of the Kennedy-Nuzzi relationship. He had always heard Kennedy boast about having overcome his addictions, both to drugs and sex. "But, clearly, he's the same old Bobby, who I've known since college, in the days when his dorm room had girls lined up to have sex with him," the insider said. "Bobby's like a sexual Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - he's been that way for decades -- and when the opportunity arises with a woman - in his case, just about any woman -- the monster side surfaces and controls his brain. I suspect that's what happened once again when he got entangled in his online sexual relationship with Olivia."
Kennedy's tumultuous personal life has been well-documented. His troubled teen years, marked by the murder of his father and his mother's abandonment, were followed by years of drug addiction, including heroin use. His womanizing tendencies have played a role in the failure of his previous marriages, and it appears that his third marriage to Hines is also on the brink of collapse due to his sexting affair.
Kennedy married Hines in 2014 at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, a little over two years after his second wife, Mary Richardson, mother of four of his six children, had hanged herself. Despite his womanizing, Kennedy had once declared in an interview for Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, "I think Mary would call me a pretty good husband." However, sources close to Richardson revealed that she was a troubled and cuckolded spouse, aware of his numerous affairs and furious about them, much like Hines is reported to be today.
Kennedy's inappropriate behavior towards women is legendary. From making sexual advances on members of Alcoholics Anonymous to fondling female dinner guests, his actions have been a source of discomfort for many. His womanizing extended to his gym sessions, where he reportedly built up his body to attract other women, including a married mother in her thirties.
Kennedy's second wife, Mary, was reportedly infuriated when he began holding meetings of members from a local branch of Sexaholics Anonymous at their family home. She put an end to the practice, fearing it was dangerous to have men with sexual addiction problems around their children. Mary had once confided to a friend that Kennedy had tried to lure her into a threesome, an invitation she found repulsive and declined.
Kennedy's cell phone directory reportedly contained the names and numbers of more than forty women from across the U.S., Canada, and even Paris. He was also said to have used the alias 'Robert Strong' when traveling, presumably to hide his famous Kennedy name from women he met on the road.
While Mary Richardson was aware of Kennedy's womanizing, she was shocked when she learned from a confidante that her husband was having an affair with Cheryl Hines. Mary claimed she had introduced Hines to Kennedy at a charity event, although Kennedy and Hines asserted their friend, the comedian Larry David, had made the introduction. David once told Kennedy after his marriage to Hines, "Nothing you will ever do will rattle her." Today, those words seem to ring hollow.
As a longtime confidant of Kennedy's once told me during my research into his marriages and womanizing, "Any woman who gets involved with Bobby does so with her eyes open Any woman who thinks they're going to change Bobby is misguided and has to understand what she's getting into with him." It seems that Hines, like the women before her, has learned this lesson the hard way.
Login